Lecia Brooks is the chief workplace transformation officer for the SPLC. She has a wealth of experience in diversity advocacy training for corporations and non profit organizations, and has a degree in political science from Loyola Marymount University. Ms. Brooks' talk will focus on the rise of antisemitism and racism in the United States. She will suggest actions to strengthen alliances among diverse communities to stand together against hate. Rabbi Justin David of Congregation B'nai Israel will moderate.

Free and open to the public. This is a wheelchair accessible space. Wednesday March 25, 2020 7-9 p.m. 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA 01060 Co-Sponsored By: ACLU of Massachusetts ,ARISE for Social Justice, Beit Ahavah, Critical Connections, Edwards Church, First Congregational Church of Amherst, UCC , Goodwin Memorial AME Zion Church, Greater Springfield Campaign for Nonviolence, Hampshire Mosque, Jewish Activists for Immigration Justice of Western Mass., Jewish Community of Amherst Tikkun Olam Committee, Massachusetts Jobs with Justice, Northampton Friends Meeting, Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School, Peace and Justice Team of First Churches, Northampton. Peace and Social Concerns Committee of Mt. Toby Friends, Peace Team of Treehouse, Easthampton, Pioneer Valley Immigrant and Refugee Action Group, Pioneer Valley Workers Center, Real Cost of Prisons Project, Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee, Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership, Temple Israel, Greenfield, Traprock Center for Peace and Justice, Vote Truth, Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence, Western Mass. Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action, Western Mass. Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ)